Those lines aren't needed. The bin dir is the default location where pyTivo looks for those files (assuming that your pyTivo is actually installed in D:\Media\pyTivo). There's no harm in specifying the locations, so I wouldn't say that you shouldn't do it. It's just unnecessary.

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Well since pushes have been down for a few days and I have a few vids I wanted on the tivo, I decided to re-enable the video shares in pytivo so I could pull....

Now I get the darn ! icon and the shares are greyed out. Tried several zeroconf settings and addresses, rebooted pytivo and the tivo several times. I get one or two of the smaller shares showing up sometimes but mostly I cannot pull or push now....

Ideas? Did others get the broken video shares fixed somehow? I read the other thread too and no answers there either.

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Well since pushes have been down for a few days and I have a few vids I wanted on the tivo, I decided to re-enable the video shares in pytivo so I could pull....

Now I get the darn ! icon and the shares are greyed out. Tried several zeroconf settings and addresses, rebooted pytivo and the tivo several times. I get one or two of the smaller shares showing up sometimes but mostly I cannot pull or push now....

Ideas? Did others get the broken video shares fixed somehow? I read the other thread too and no answers there either.

No, the ones with ! are greyed out and when selected return an error that the list could not be obtained. One or two (depending on when I check, they come and go) show a PC icon and are not greyed out. Those return a list from pytivo.

Anyone know how to get these working again? I will admit its been well over a year since I had video shares enabled for pulls as I always use pushes....until now.

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No, the ones with ! are greyed out and when selected return an error that the list could not be obtained. One or two (depending on when I check, they come and go) show a PC icon and are not greyed out. Those return a list from pytivo.

Anyone know how to get these working again? I will admit its been well over a year since I had video shares enabled for pulls as I always use pushes....until now.

Huh. All I can say is that they work for me and have all along. This may be a totally different problem. What does it look like in the SDUI? What platform are you on? I'm on Win2K (no comments, please).

Back to the HDUI, all but one share are greyed out but they all display a directory EXCEPT my movies directory. That share only contians 3 videos with 3 txt files for metadata and a number of subdirectories.

pytivo will not display that share on the tivo. Displays fine in the webUI.

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Back to the HDUI, all but one share are greyed out but they all display a directory EXCEPT my movies directory. That share only contians 3 videos with 3 txt files for metadata and a number of subdirectories.

pytivo will not display that share on the tivo. Displays fine in the webUI.

Downloaded todays master from wmcbrine and installed. Started pytivo and again attempted to go to my shows and the pytivo movies share. This time the share opened (even though it still shows a ! and is greyed out).

Now I select a video and tell it to transfer.....pytivo attempts to transfer the mp4 with h264 and ac3 audio and fails for too low of a bandwidth setting.

It exceeds the maximum allowed rate, which is 448K by default. You can change this in the .conf file (although really, it should be changed as the default for Premieres -- which kind of implies killing it as a .conf option (see here)).

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Is the bitrate failure for the audio or the video?

Audio.

This (attempting to use only 64 Kbps) is a bug either in pyTivo or in your .conf file, which is why I'd like to rule out the latter.

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It exceeds the maximum allowed rate, which is 448K by default. You can change this in the .conf file (although really, it should be changed as the default for Premieres -- which kind of implies killing it as a .conf option (see here)).

Audio.

This (attempting to use only 64 Kbps) is a bug either in pyTivo or in your .conf file, which is why I'd like to rule out the latter.

P.S. What kind of lunatic made a file with 3478 kb/s video and 640 kb/s audio?

I guess that would be me and the result of my default x264 settings of constant quality factor of 20.0 as set in meGUI. Some videos come out significantly higher than that depending on content. This particular encode was only 24fps which helps (1080p24). Are others using significantly lower crf values?

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I guess that would be me and the result of my default x264 settings of constant quality factor of 20.0 as set in meGUI. Some videos come out significantly higher than that depending on content. This particular encode was only 24fps which helps (1080p24). Are others using significantly lower crf values?

I use 17 in Handbrake. I don't know if the CRF values track one-for-one between Handbrake and MeGUI, but if I were to guess, I would expect they do.

Thanks, I will give lower values a try and see if I can tell any improvement in video quality. I can say I have been using 20 for a LONG time and somewhere along the line a revision to x264 made the resultant files much lower bit rate for the same crf than before. As I really did not notice a reduction in quality, I left things alone.

Back to pytivo, I tried removing max_audio_br = 640K from my pytivo.conf and tried pulling again. It does but reencodes the audio down to 448 but at least it transfers so we are on to something.

Should not 640k be the default max bitrate for Premieres? that is why I had stuck that parameter in the conf many moons ago, right after I upgraded from my tivoHD.

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jcthorne, I'm unable to reproduce your problem. I get the correct behavior with max_audio_br = 640k in the _tivo_HD section and a file with 640k AC3 sound. And I see no errors in the code. I'm drawn towards outré explanations, such as that you haven't shown me the actual pyTivo.conf being used, or that your installation is broken somehow, perhaps by mixing code from different versions. I don't know. Sorry.

I can only offer a trivial and irrelevant observation about your pyTivo.conf. These lines:

I truly appreciate your looking into this. Think its time after so many years and upgrades to blow away the pytivo directory and start fresh. Including building a new pytivo.conf file with only the currently required options. Thanks again for all you do on pytivo.

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I might even go crazy and remove the bitrate options. I'd be interested to hear defenses of any of these options from anyone who wants to preserve them. (see here)).

For some reason I can't post in the pytivo forum but I wanted to answer your question, some of us still use CRT's and have slow networks so I reduce the picture quality so I can watch shows real time. I don't notice the reduction because as I said, we have all CRT's. In fact, someone just gave me a 36" CRT so I have one on standby in the event one of my current sets fail.

Can you make some kind of advanced configuration where those of us who don't need HD can reduce the workload on our networks? Not to mention my old 486 video server that tuns pytivo...

Just reporting back. Still have problem with ! icon and shares greyed out but they all work anyway now. And pulls work as h.264 video without transcode now.

I blew away my pytivo install and started fresh so it was something mucking up the works with many many over writes of new pytivo code over the years. I have no idea when pulls quit working for me as I had not used them in a long time. Over a year.

Anyway, with current code and a less cluttered conf file built from the conf.dist file, I am working again. And pushes are back as well thanks to tivo rebooting the mind server.

Thanks everyone. Sorry to have hogged so much bandwidth. Looking foreward to the next big thing....

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